9 Professional Development Books to Make You a Better World Language Teacher
As world language teachers, we are sometimes forced to sit through professional development sessions that have nothing to do with us… state testing, core academic subjects, etc. And attending world language specific professional development can be costly. So, from the comfort of your home or classroom, check out these 9 Professional Development Books to Make […]
How to Teach El Delantal Blanco to High School Students
I first read El delantal blanco in college. I remember it was one of my first college level Spanish courses and for some reason, years later, this drama just stuck with me. Maybe it was that an upper class woman thought that switching outfits with her maid would allow them to see the world differently? […]
The Best Children’s Books Spanish Teachers Can Use to Teach Grammar
In modern foreign language pedagogy, we tend to not teach “grammar” directly. We want our students to naturally acquire grammar through comprehensible input and authentic texts. One of the best strategies to do this is with children’s books spanish lessons. Children’s books tend to use repetition of similar phrases and sentence structure over and over […]
How to Build a Spanish Classroom Library on a Budget
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” ― Jorge Luis Borges. Our classrooms should be a paradise for our students. We must fill our paradise, or our classroom library with books in the target language. But how can we build our Spanish classroom library on a budget? There are so […]